Baby items - the first 2 months
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If you are pregnant, planning ahead to stock your nursery will make the transition to motherhood much easier. Following is a list of items that you may want to have on hand when you bring your baby home. Plenty of each item is always good - incase you don't get the laundry done, or are too tired to get out shopping. Baby items such as clothing, bath time, bedding, feeding, bottles, diapers, and more.
- Activity center
- Baby book – record firsts
- Baby lotion
- Baby monitor
- Baby shampoo
- Baby wipes
- Basinet
- Bath
- Bath toys
- Bibs
- Blankets – receiving, quilt
- Books – parenting, breastfeeding, first year, babies
- Bottle brush
- Bottle warmer
- Bottles
- Bouncer/rocker
- Breast Feeding – pads, pump, cream, pillow, clothes, book
- Brush & comb
- Brush and comb
- Bumper pad for crib
- Burp cloths
- Camera – take pictures often
- Car seat
- Carbon Monoxide Detector
- Changing mat
- Changing table
- Cotton balls
- Crib
- Crib sheet - fitted
- Diaper bag
- Diaper ointment
- Diaper pail
- Diaper rash cream
- Diapers
- Diapers – if using cloth – cloth diapers, pins, plastic pants
- Dishwasher basket for bottle nipples
- Disinfectant spray or cleaner
- Extras of everything!!!
- First aid kit
- Formula
- Gowns
- Hats & mittens
- Journal – record thoughts
- Laundry soap – mild, special for babies
- Mattress pads
- Milk storage kit
- Mitten (to prevent scratching)
- Mobile for crib
- Nail clippers/scissors
- Nasal aspirator
- Night light
- Nightgowns or sleepers
- Nursery thermometer
- Onsies
- Pacifier
- Petroleum jelly
- Playpen
- Rattles
- Sleeping wedge (keep’s baby on their side)
- Sling or soft carrier
- Smoke detector for baby’s room
- Snowsuit/jacket
- Soap – mild, for baby
- Socks
- Sterilizing equipment
- Stroller
- Suction bulb
- Sweater
- Syrup of Ipecac
- Thermometer
- Towel – hooded, soft
- Toys
- Travel cot
- Tub – to bathe newborns
- Undershirts
- Washcloths
